China will invest heavily in solid-state lighting program

Third China International Solid State Lighting Forum in July 12-14 held in Shenzhen. This year the number of visitors has risen by more than 520 delegates, mostly from China, with about 40 from other countries, including the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

In spite of the Chinese each year in several different areas will be held in LED and solid state lighting, Chinese International Solid State Lighting Forum has established a "set up an international conference and China the highest levels of government departments in the theme of official funding (including the Ministry of science and technology and the Ministry of information industry and China Academy of Sciences and solid state lighting committee.

Third Chinese International Solid State Lighting Forum held at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, about 150 companies, mostly China company exhibited a variety of LED lighting, display products and components and testing and measuring instruments, optics and materials.

This year's China International Solid State Lighting Forum is particularly important because in 2006, in February, China formally introduced the solid-state lighting program into the 11 five year plan. Conference spokesman is Vice Minister of science and technology, Dr. Ma Songde. Dr. Ma Songde has been an important supporter of the solid state lighting program and is also chairman of the China solid state lighting committee.

Dr. Songde Ma said that the growth of the high-tech sector is an important part of China's future development, and LED is an integral part of. Only 10% of China's GDP is from high-tech fields and the other is from a foreign company in China or a joint venture with China in. Therefore, one of the goals of the solid-state lighting program is to stimulate domestic production through public-private partnerships.

Another important goal of China's solid state lighting program is energy conservation. China is the second largest energy consuming country after the United States, GDP energy consumption per dollar far more than Japan, Europe and the United states. The company's ambitious plans to make it 4 times before 2015, but only to increase the energy consumption of the two factor. Lighting is a major factor in the growth of energy demand, especially as there are 14 million rural residents moving to cities every year. The adoption of solid-state lighting will be an important factor in reducing energy demand growth.

In order to highlight the need for solid-state lighting research and development, China has five plans in the past 350 million yuan ($44 million) into the budget in 11. Participants will include more than 15 research institutes and university research laboratories, and more than 2500 companies including LED wafers, chips, packages and applications. The protection of intellectual property rights is a major concern and is a major element of the solid-state lighting program, the Chinese government believes that no single enterprise has the ability to monopolize technology and market.

China is expected to become the world's largest LED and solid state lighting market. Promote the growth of the domestic industry through public-private partnerships, but also welcome foreign companies to participate in. To fully understand the need to protect intellectual property rights and encourage Chinese companies to apply for patents to protect their intellectual property rights.

The protection of intellectual property rights and intellectual property rights are the main problems China solid-state lighting market in the development of the National Intellectual Property Strategy Group official Mr. Wu said, China LED in the basic patent technology behind Japan, Europe and the United States 6--20. In addition, many Chinese companies, especially small companies do not attach importance to the importance of patents. Mr. Wu said, in order to achieve success in the international market, to apply for a patent and respect for intellectual property rights is very important. For example, HUAWEI, a very successful Chinese communications equipment company has passed more than 11000 patents. Mr. Wu suggests that Chinese companies are looking for foreign companies that do not have a patent "gap" in the solid state lighting field, especially in the downstream packaging and application areas. If Chinese companies want to compete in the international market, they have to ask for patent protection abroad.

President Dalian luminglight science and Technology Co Ltd and Chinese largest high brightness LED chip production company Xiao Zhiguo photoelectric route beauty stressed Mr. Wu warned, in order to develop the core technology in the world market competition China LED solid state lighting company patent is very necessary.